What Remains

A dual solo exhibition: Ishbel Angus & Izzy Bouric

Objects hold onto things long after we've let go of them. They keep carrying meaning we didn't consciously put there. Ishbel Angus paints from that idea. Her objects work akin to a psychological vessel for feelings that can not be directly articulated or confront. From existing still life to self-made objects exudes eerie atmosphere. You look at the object, but you're really looking at what it's holding for someone.

Izzy Bouric is after something harder to pin down. Her paintings and drawings don't depict a mental state from the outside: Dreamlike, shifting, unresolved, resistant to be named. The moment you think you've worked out what a Bouric painting is "about," it's already slipped into something else. It's less illustration and more residue of an internal experience, caught mid-dissolve.

Put the two bodies of work side by side and you get a conversation: one artist watching meaning settle into objects from the outside, the other trying to paint from inside a mind as it comes loose from its own certainty. Angus moves outward, into the world of things. Bouric moves inward, into the blur before thought becomes fixed.

Somewhere between the two is the question the show is actually asking: when something passes, a feeling, a self, a state of mind — what's left behind? An object. A trace. A residue on canvas, and what remains?

Na An (Anna)

Managing Director and Curator

Ripple Verse Gallery